U.S.S. Shipwreck
1600-2000
Nat: Darn it?!
Me: What if it was us?
Nat: Then I will take back my darn; otherwise, I'm putting it back up.
Me: Okay.
Nat: Look. There sure are a lot of people at Walmart.
Me: Poor bastards.
Nat: Well, let's pretend you are an adult.
Me: Okay, hypothetically, let's say I am an adult...
Nat: Well what if you needed something? And you could only get it at Walmart. Then what?
Me: Then they would have it somewhere else or else I wouldn't need it.
Nat: Well what if you really did?
Me: Like what? Like, if I needed a snow shovel and they were the only place in town that had them?
Nat: Yes, like that.
Me: Then I would borrow a snow shovel from someone: a neighbor, a friend, someone.
Nat: What if they didn't have one?
Me: Then I would drive to my parents' house and haul their snow shovel home and haul it back to them.
Nat: What if they didn't have one?
Me: Of course they have one.
Nat: Well, what if they didn't?
Me. Natalie, if nobody in town had a snow shovel, and the only ones available were at Walmart, then everyone would have snow on their walkways and I wouldn't care.
Nat: Oh.
